Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-07-01
WAS PILOT A MORGAN.
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PILOT.

PILOT.
We have recently received the follow
ing note
MIR. BATTELL:
Dear Sir Il noticed in last weeks
Cultvator an article in relation to Pilot
and Morgan horses, etc. The Morgans
crossed with Hambletonians have pro-
duced many fast horses. likewise Pr
lot, Jr.. mares under the same circum-
stances. Now, do not the produce of
Pilot, Jr., mares more nearly resemble
the Morgan family of horses than any
other, and how about color and other
characteristics?
Please send me sample number of
the Middlebury REGISTER.
J. ID. TwOMBLY.
Winchester Mass.
Our correspondent is assured that this
is all right. Pilot was by a son of jus
tin Morgan, his dam a Morgan mare that
afterwards became very celebrated in
Massachusetts as a trotter. one of the
fastest known up to that time. Pilot was
not only very fast at the pace. but at the
trot, and before sold by his breeder had
been quite successful as runner, win
ming one race by a neck. in closing
Jump of p feet, by measurement, over a
ditch. The full account of this horse
with the different hands he passed
through from his breeder to his DEATH
will appear in our forthcoming work on
Morgan horses.
In connection we can hardly think
of more remarkable fact in the whole
history of the horses of the world than
that the fastest records of trotting and
pacing carry the blood of that horse
that was taken without prestige or favor
TO the almost wilderness of Vermont in
179l and there lived long life, doing all
kinds of work from drawing logs to
drawing stages. racing thrown in, at the
walk, trot or Jump. like a noble horse.
diving at last from the effects of kick :
when his eye was still undimmed and his
strength unbroken.
We know of nothing in ali the history
of nature that more fully eXemplifies
both the survival of the tittest and the
sending down of qualities to remote gem
erations with unerring certainty.
If this was not the life Of conqueror
what could be:
johnson. :0Gi; Maud s., 2:0s4 West
mont, 2:0li with running mate: II. B.
Winship, , :06i ditto: j. |. c. , 10: Maud
:. and Aldine, fastest mile double, :l54 ::
Hopeful, best to wagon, 2:l61; Rarus.
one-half mile track, best, 2:lG: John
Stewart, 10 miles to wagon, Is :024: all
of them carrying this blood. most of
them in direct line by sire, or dam, or
both.
And this is done, done by quality
that is all asserting, Notwithstanding i'm
probable, almost impossible chances.
Probably the next greatest source of
speed to the pace or trot of this CONT
nent was Domed. \ wonderful success
he achieved and his blood flows richly
through the currents of thousand trot-
tiers; but he was imported because of
his breeding and merit. was used upon
the most celebrated mares of his time.
had all possible chance to perpetuate his
quality. After him comes Messenger.
who through the fortunate sustaining
power of the Bellfounder trotting
blood, would appear as a good third.
HS chance was the very best possible.
In guessing out his pedigree of Engi-
neer Mr.. Wallace says that there
were many stallion sons of Messen-
ger bred in Pennsylvania. lie certain
ly left many sons and daughters
whilst he stood on Long Island and
from the best blooded and highest priced
mares of the country. Mr.. Thompson has
published list of 81 of these stations. p
of which were gray. Through but one son,
Mambrino, are trotters descended from
him in any numbers. Through one other,
Bishops Hambletonian, a few more
originated and his blood is supposed to be
mingled with that of the Bellfounder
mare, through which the great prestige
ofthe family comes.
Justin Morgan went to Vermont, where
but tens of dollars were invested or ex-
pended in horses, to thousands, perhaps
tens of thousands, in New York. De-
spised for his size, though admired for
his beauty, he covered at first but few
mares, afterwards many but very few of
his sons were kept entire. in all PROBABLE
ity not over nine. These had the chance
of the wilderness, but from four of them